The cooler weather turned out to be a blessing for us! We had snowball
blooms and only one day of bee flight due to the cold temps. That one
day was in the 80's.....everything opened up.....the bees did what they
could....and we ended up with rather poor pollination based on the
number of blooms. But....as it turns out, we won't need to thin much,
if any at all, since only about 60% of the blooms set fruit! Actually
looks like a nice crop.....Lord willing and the hail don't come!!
Dennis Norton
IPM Specialist/Certified Nurseryman/IT Specialist
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
15908 Hebron Rd.
Harvard, IL 60033-9357
Office (815) 648-4467
Mobile (815) 228-2174
Fax (609) 228-2174
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On 5/31/2015 4:29 PM, kuffelcr...@kuffelcreek.com wrote:
Low-chill climate didn't help us with the thinning any this year; despite
an almost tropical winter, I still ended up with snowball blooms and
annoying grape cluster-like applets that take forever to hand-thin before
they snap the branches off.
Kevin Hauser
On Sun, 31 May 2015 15:30:08 -0400, Arthur Kelly <kellyorcha...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Nothing like 3 days of wet cool weather just when you ought to be
thinning
your apple crop. Such is apple growing.
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